Origin: in Fort Valley, Ga., by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Hort. Field Laboratory. Introd. in 1961. A selected seedling from seed obtained in 1949 from a commercial importer as Prunus davidiana; tree and fruit characters resemble peach (P. persica); may be of hybrid origin; tests of seed germination, compatibility with various peach varieties, nematode resistance, and top growth of scions have been made principally at U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Stations at Fort Valley, Ga.; Fresno, Calif.; Beltsville, Md.; released for trial in 1959 as US FV 234-1. Rootstock: percentage of seed germination high; peach buds compatible, showing very satisfactory growth, with good fruit yields; resistance to root-knot nematode species equal to any other stock tested at Beltsville and Fort Valley; tests of seedlings inoculated with Meloidogyne incognita variety acrita, root-knot nematode, showed some root damage on only about 25% of seedlings, but reproduction of these nematodes was uncertain; similar tests with M. javanica, root-knot nematode, showed slight galling, but nematode reproduction was doubtful. Tree: blooms in Elberta season; chilling requirement for fruit and leaf buds same as for Elberta; trees grown at Fort Valley have shown some trunk damage usually associated with winter injury in that area. Fruit:
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